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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • Police prefer that criminal cases are resolved by compelling a confession. If a woman is told by the police they have her period data, most people would crack in that situation. Whether it holds up in court is mostly irrelevant.

    It should go without saying, but never talk to police and if you’re being interviewed, insist on invoking your 6th amendment right to an attorney and your 5th amendment right to remain silent. And don’t engage with anything the police say.





  • I don’t know really anything about network setup, but as far as I know, your ISP should have nothing to do with it while you use a VPN.

    All I had to do was change the settings on the AirVPN account on their website (logged in) and add the port to my qbittorrent settings. This is unrelated, but I also added a killswitch in qbittorrent advanced settings that stops torrenting if my vpn connection fails. After that, I went to a site like https://canyouseeme.org/ and verified my port forwarding was set up properly.

    I never had to touch my router or ISP settings. My configuration is running the VPN from each device. It is also possible to set up your VPN directly on the router. That way, all traffic on the home network is through the VPN.


  • I use AirVPN. It’s reliable and I like their vpn client Eddie, but there are a few things you should know. Google blocks traffic from all of their Dallas servers, about 20% of their us based servers. Also, a few web hosting companies block AirVPN traffic, at least on the servers I use, including GoDaddy. I can’t access the Linux Mint forums while on AirVPN either. Every day or two I have to disable the VPN to access a site, which defeats the purpose, IMO.

    One good thing about AirVPN is that they have sales often. But I would try a week now before committing. Reliability has been top notch and they have a lot of servers.

    Edit: I use port forwarding for bittorrent and it was easy to set up. You log in on their website and choose a port to forward for your account. I’m honestly a novice at networking and I figured it out using these instructions.



  • It’s very irregular for a country to take back top level domains. Even refusing to renew registrations is unheard of.

    ML, tk, etc broke ground by offering free country code TLDs starting 10 years ago. This was possible until Meta sued Freenom this year for issuing domains to the majority of all sources phishing traffic.

    Basically, the internet got used to getting TLDs for free, and that was great, except the issuers of said domains (African countries with not a lot of money) have no obligation and no incentive to keep doing that forever. Especially after it became a liability.



  • It’s not perfect, but that’s unfortunately how union contracts tend to go. They don’t get a $5 raise right away but its a couple dollars every year over 5 years. They don’t upgrade the entire fleet instantly, but all new vehicles will have lifesaving cooling.

    It’s actually a bit more favorable than I originally thought, though. Within 30 days of the contract being signed, all cars will have a cabin fan and heat shields.

    Air conditioning systems will be included in all of the company’s small package delivery vehicles purchased after Jan. 1, 2024.

    It will be the first time UPS will be required to equip the company’s recognizable “package car” vehicles — which make up about 95% of its delivery fleet — with air conditioning, the union said.

    UPS said it would send the new vehicles to the hottest parts of the U.S. first when possible.

    Under the agreement, UPS will ensure all current package cars have a cab fan within 30 days of the new contract being ratified; the company will also install heat shields, which reduce truck floor temperatures, and air induction systems to increase airflow in the cargo areas.